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Tag: "error" at medical news

Wearing No-line Bifocals Slows Myopia Progression in Some Children

...ents. “This study shows that parental refractive error should now be added to the constellation of factors which are related to the progression of juvenile onset myopia,” said researcher Dan Kurtz of the New England College of Optometry. Source-Newswise SR...

Computer Misreading Results In Wrong Prescription

...t , NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said , due to an error the computer selected sildenafil, the name for Viagra instead of anti-smoking pill Zyban. "At no time was patient care affected by this as all prescriptions are subject to stringent double checking," says a spokesman for NHS. PRI...

A New Gamma Camera Technique for the Detection of Small Breast Tumors

...-positive result, the researchers believe that the error rate is less than the approximately 10 percent rate found with traditional mammography. The research team used this innovative dual-head gamma camera system to scan 100 patients who had suspicious breast lesions that were small, with a diameter of...

Indore Surgeon Offers New Hope for Erectile Dysfunction

...e operation was not an experimental or a trial and error one. "Before this operation, I had saved over 1,000 gangrene suffered limbs by the same omental transplantation technique," he claimed. Source-IANS...

Obstacles to Reducing Human Injury and Death Due to Medical Error

...ited States, legal action as a result of a medical error is almost always treated as a civil matter, a disp...on to believe that a family member died because of error or negligence, the family hires an attorney who will use tort law, specifically medical malpractice ...

Eye Tests in Preemies Predict Vision Trouble of Later Years

...population-based study, we found that a refractive error at 2.5 years of age predicts that refractive error will also be present at 10 years of age,' the team concluded. The researchers added, 'Recommendati...

Medically Induced Abortions (MIAs) Causes More Deaths Due To Infection

...der problem--it's a big intellectual and strategic error to focus on medical abortions. This is an infectious diseases issue.' In her editorial, Dr. Winikoff points out that most of the explanations that have been put forward to connect C. sordellii with mifepristone do not have sufficient scientific b...

Fears of Pandemic Flu makes Americans Ready for Change

...38%) of the total adult population. The margin of error for the total sample is plus or minus 2.4 percentage points. Possible sources of non-sampling error include non-response bias, as well as question wording and ordering effects. Non-response in telepho...

Radiotherapy Centers in Scotland Undergo Inspection

...Lisa, 16, from Girvan, had become the victim of an error committed during the transcribing of a computer-generated treatment plan at the Beatson oncology center in Glasgow.Therefore in January she was made to undergo 19 separate treatment sessions, that was around 58% higher than the prescribed dose, accor...

High-Energy Clamp Simplifies Heart Surgery for Atrial Fibrillation

...frequency ablation clamp removes the potential for error by monitoring when the lesion goes all the way through the tissue and automatically shutting the power off at that point." By simplifying the Cox-Maze surgery, the method will make the procedure available to more patients. "This has made it possibl...

Ethnic Differences in Healthcare

...ta based on patient memory contains too much human error and the federal government should not rely exclusively on it when deciding policy issues, such as the allocation of resources to eliminate health care disparities. Insurance claims may represent a less biased means for national tracking of ethnic dis...

Mathematics And Beauty? You Bet!

...he predicted outcome. They found a mean prediction error of between 1 and 1.5mm for the soft tissue, which they write "seems to be a fully acceptable result." "Even though biomechanical tissue modeling turns out to be a tough problem, we are already rather successful in predicting postoperative appearance...

A New Approach to Heart Bypass Surgery Provides Patients with 'One-stop Shopping'

...b will catch the rare but very important technical error (if it arises). Just like seat belts and air bags save your life in a car accident.” Byrne, The William S. Stoney Jr. Professor of Cardiac Surgery and Chair of the Department, said most people had no idea that X-rays of cardiac surgical procedures ...

America’s Clean Hands Report Card - Can’t Rise Above ‘C’ Lvel

...cations Research (ICR). The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percent. Source-Eurekalert SRM...

Driving Drunk or on Drugs is on the Rise among Teens

...rance. Guideline says the survey has a margin of error of 3.3%. NLA...

Cancer cell behavior during Metastasis – New finding

...s transition in cancer cells when they observed an error in "alternative splicing," a key element of the genetic copying program inside cells. Alternative splicing determines how the DNA is chopped into pieces and then reassembled. The order in which DNA is reassembled determines which proteins the gene pr...

Americans Deficient In Dietary Intake Of Choline Needed for Fetal Brain Development

...ionally. The possibility of the findings to have a error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points at the 95% confidence level was also stated. SourceMedindia VIK...

Medicare Sends out Reimbursement Checks Erroneously

...t on Tuesday is said to contain an apology. The error occurred while the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services updated the Social Security Administration on the various changes in coverage that beneficiaries had requested. McClellan however stressed that the checks will have to be returned by th...

Majority Of People In US Seek Essential Changes In Health Care System

...ree percent of those who had experienced a medical error in the past two years said the system needs to be rebuilt, compared with 27 percent of those who did not experience a medical error. Asked about the importance of health care policy actions for President and Congress, survey respondents said the fo...

Medical mishaps – to be revealed or not

...y do not disclose the major medical mishaps if the error is not noticed by the patient.// The study was c... decisions on whether the patient was aware of the error is not ethically defensible or consistent with required standards”, say the authors. They say that t...

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